Best bets for entertainment this week

Thursday

Jan 18, 2018 at 6:00 AM

This week's highlights include a soup supper, a fireside read, poetry/music and puppetry/dance combos, and various kinds of music.

SATURDAY, JAN. 20

Church’s soup suppers begin

West Yarmouth Congregational Church will restart its annual Soup Sampler Suppers, offering an all-you-can-eat buffet of members’ homemade soups, stews and chowders, and “Pastor Chuck’s famous chili.” Rolls, cornbread, beverages and a second buffet of homemade desserts will also be presented. Additional suppers will be Feb. 10, March 10 and April 14.

When: 5:30 p.m. Saturday

Where: Baker Hall in West Yarmouth Congregational Church, 383 Main St. (Route 28)

Admission: Free, but donations appreciated

Reservations (strongly recommended) and information: 508-775-0891

Authors offer a fireside read

Six local authors will read excerpts from their latest or favorite works for a cozy “Ten-Minute Tales” program in front of a fire. The event is hosted by the Literary Arts Group of the Sandwich Arts Alliance. Authors will be June Bowser-Barrett, Dean Coe (the “Chesterton” series), Glyn Dowden, Christie Lowrance, Carolyn LeComte (“Dark Paradise” and “Pale Angel”) and Louise Ambrose. Snacks will be provided.

When: 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday

Where: British Beer Company, 46 Route 6A, Sandwich

Donation: $15

Yard’s winter show mixes dance with puppets

The third winter season for year-rounders by The Yard dance organization will begin with a performance by Sandglass Theater, an internationally known company that specializes in combining puppets with music, actors and visual imagery. The show will include "Autumn Portraits," "When I Put on Your Glove," and excerpts of other works, choreographed and performed by Shoshana Bass with puppets created by her father, Eric. In the first piece, the puppets become characters in the “autumn” of their existence that answer questions of spiritual crisis and belonging.

When: 7 p.m. Saturday

Where: The Artist’s Studio, 43 Pennywise Path, Edgartown

Suggested donation: $10

Reservations (seating is limited) and information: 508-645-9662

Cotuit center brings back Bruce Marshall Group

The Bruce Marshall Group will return to Cotuit Center for the Arts with a live music show of original material rooted in the blues, R&B, Americana, country blues and Southern boogie. The concert will include songs from all six of their CDs and an acoustic mini-set. Besides singer/songwriter/guitarist Marshall, group members are longtime guitarist Dave Cournoyer, Pete Premo on drums, Glen DiTomasso on five-string bass and Steve Roberge on tenor sax, harmonica and vocals. The band has been performing and recording since 1990 and has shared the stage with more than 200 national acts.

When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday

Where: Cotuit Center for the Arts, 4404 Route 28

Tickets: $30, $28 for seniors and veterans, and $25 for members; premium tables with wine

Reservations and information: 508-428-0669

SATURDAY, JAN. 20, AND SUNDAY, JAN. 21

Symphony spotlights Haydn and Brahms

Cape Symphony will highlight its own musicians in its latest program, “Haydn to Brahms: A Thread of Genius.” The shows will begin with four musicians at the front of the stage – concertmaster Jae Cosmos Lee, principal violin Heather Goodchild Wade, principal violist Anya Shemetyeva and cellist Jacques Lee Wood – for Joseph Haydn's String Quartet No. 63 ("The Sunrise"). The rest of the orchestra will join in for Brahms’ “Variations on a Theme by Haydn,” and the concerts will close with Brahm’s “Symphony No. 3,” played by the orchestra for the first time in more than a decade.

Curtis Martin of Wellesley will lecture on “American Whaling in the Age of Sail,” discussing the 17th to early 20th centuries in the whaling industry. The talk will include life aboard a vessel, the risks involved, details of the hunt, processing of the whales and products, whale men’s leisure arts, and the decline and death of the industry in the United States

When: 2 p.m. Sunday

Where: Atwood House & Museum, 347 Stage Harbor Road, Chatham

Tickets: $5, free for members

Information: www.chathamhistoricalsociety.org or 508-945-2493

TUESDAY, JAN. 23

Poetry, music night recalls Vietnam War

Sturgis Library will host Voice of Poetry’s evening of poetry and music to mark the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War and other, more recent conflicts. Participating will be poets Doug Anderson, a combat veteran who has written extensively about his experiences in Vietnam; Howie Faerstein, who has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize (a literary prize by New York-based Pushcart Press that honors the best poetry, short fiction and essays published in small presses); and Eric Wasileski, who served for two years in the Army and six years in the Navy. Music will be provided by Black Whydah Trio (John Best, Jean Alitz Sagara and Ellen Watters Sullivan), which will perform the world premiere of Best’s composition based on Mark Twain’s poem/prose piece “The War Prayer.”

When: 6 p.m. Tuesday

Where: Sturgis Library, 3090 Main St., Barnstable

Admission: Free

Information: 508-362-6636

Compiled by Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll

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